Publication requires an email footnote on the title page for the corresponding author denoted by an asterisk. Using \email below the corresponding author's name successfully creates the required footnote, but uses a) as default rather than an asterisk. Is there any way to change the symbol type used by \email, or is it better to create the footnote some other way?
Example code:
\documentclass[aip,jap,reprint,graphicx]{revtex4-1}
\author{author}
\email[]{email@email.com}
\date{\today}
The substyle file for aip does
\let\@fnsymbol@latex\@fnsymbol
\let\@fnsymbol\@alph
so all you need is to revert the redefinition, but also to flip a switch that would otherwise make the code for \maketitle to choose again \@alph.
\documentclass[aip,jap,reprint]{revtex4-1}
\makeatletter
\let\@fnsymbol\@fnsymbol@latex
\@booleanfalse\altaffilletter@sw
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\title{Title}
\author{author}
\email[]{email@email.com}
\date{\today}
\maketitle
\end{document}
Side note: there is no graphicx option to the document class. If you plan to include graphic files, add
\usepackage{graphicx}
instead.
a)for the AIP substyles of revtex4. If you are sure that the email should be put as an asterisk, check ifaipis the correct option - if you remove it, an asterisk will be printed. – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Oct 04 '17 at 20:59